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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>
Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: [re]writable cdrom drive 
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: > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'.
: > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB
: > you will only have 550MB left.  You can actually erase the media using
: > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while.
:
:In my experience, this is not true.  I have used blank=fast on a CDRW
:that has over 500 MB written, and then written another 500 MB without
:a problem.

    Really?  I'll have to mess with it some more.  Maybe I had tried to
    write more data then I thought in my last test.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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